Not In Our Name: A Declaration of Concerned Protestant and
Catholic Clergy and Laity, with a Ten Point Program to Bring the
Church to Justice and Protect the Innocent
We are a group of clergy and former clergy of both Protestant and Catholic
faiths who are united in our fundamental rejection of the genocidal legacy of
Christendom, which is an empire of conquest and violence arising from the
fusion of church and state under the later Roman emperors.
Christendom operates today through wealthy, state-protected church
organizations which are legal corporations answerable neither to God nor to
their own congregations of believers.
Christendom is a heresy and a denial of the supremacy of Christ and his
sacrifice. For we owe our allegiance to God, not to church bodies deriving their
power and legitimacy from state and temporal powers, and worldly wealth.
As Christ is manifest in every man and woman, since the kingdom of heaven is
within us, and his kingdom is not of this world, then any church claiming to
represent him is fraudulently denying Christ as Lord, and the ultimate sanctity
of the human person.
We are compelled to make this declaration now because of the reign of lies and
violence that predominates in the church, and of the history of brutality,
genocide and destruction enacted over millennia by both Catholic and
Protestant churches on non-Christians and the innocent.
This slaughter began over fifteen centuries ago, at the beginning of
Christendom, and continues today.
The killing of millions of women and dissident Christians under Inquisitions,
the Crusading ethic of Indulgence – which promised spiritual cleansing to
anyone who killed Jews, Muslims and other enemies of the faith and the
eventual genocide of untold millions of indigenous nations around the world: all
of this arose from the Church’s belief that it has the power to kill and conquer
in the name of the non-violent Jesus.
The Vatican is responsible for the greatest slaughter of humanity in history
because of two papal bulls (Romanus Pontifex, 1455, and Inter Catera, 1493) proclaimed and still operative under so-called Canon Law – that sanctioned
and encouraged the destruction and enslavement of all non-Christian peoples:
the majority of humanity. The wealth of the Vatican today rests upon the stolen
and unreturned lands of many of those nations.
Is it surprising, then, that for just as long, the Church has sanctioned the
torture, abuse and even murder of innocent children in its orphanages,
sweatshops, and residential schools around the world? Are we surprised that
such a violent organization places its own material survival ahead of justice for
the innocents it has wronged? Or, that under the canon law known as Crimen
Solicitationas, every priest is expected to hide the evidence of the rape of
children and allow this abomination to go unpunished, or face expulsion from
the church?
We are aware that Protestant churches as well are guilty of these crimes, and
regularly shelter rapists and other criminals in their ranks. The example may
be set by Rome, but it is actively copied by others.
These facts are irrefutable, and yet Christians continue to give their attendance,
money and allegiance to the church corporations with such blood on their
hands and lies on their lips.
All of these crimes against God and humanity have been done in our name. We
have, by commission and omission, given our support to the anti-Christ in our
midst and allowed ourselves to be used to commit the worst of all sins: violence
against the sacred holy spirit of God and the innocent.
For this reason, and to cleanse ourselves of this enormous apostasy and
wrong, we are issuing the following Ten Point Program. We believe that
these measures are required for the church to be brought under public
control so that it no longer operates as a secret, criminal body preying on
the innocent.
1. The Church must issue full reparations to all of its victims according to their
wishes and needs. The Church must pay for all of the costs incurred by their
damage to these victims, including all medical, counseling and retraining costs,
and all loss of income caused by their disability or grief and suffering.
2. The Church must return all land and property taken from its victims, and
restore and return all of the wealth generated by their exploitation of their
victims to them, including the wealth gained through forced, unpaid or low paid
labor.
3. The Church must surrender for a proper burial, unconditionally and at its
own expense, the remains of all those who died in their institutions or under
their care.
4. The Church must surrender to secular authorities without conditions all the
evidence, and all the perpetrators and their accessories, connected to such
deaths and to any other crimes against children and others under church care.
The Church must participate unconditionally in any legal or human rights
inquiries into their crimes and freely disclose their records to such
investigations.
5. Those responsible for crimes against children and others in church facilities,
including the Pope, must be arrested and tried in civil or international courts of
law, and cannot be shielded from prosecution by any form of immunity or by
so-called canon law.
6. All clergy and church employees must be licensed and monitored as public
servants, and be legally compelled to swear a public, binding oath to protect the
rights and sanctity of children, and disclose any harm done to them, if need be
against the orders of the Church itself.
7. All tax exemptions, immunities, legal safeguards and special privileges
enjoyed by the Church must be abolished.
8. Diplomatic recognition of the Vatican and its status as a so-called
“state― must be annulled.
9. All special concordats and financial agreements with the Vatican must be
annulled, and all public funds and taxes given to the Vatican must be returned
to their respective governments.
10. The wealth and property of all church bodies larger than a single
congregation must be nationalized and placed under public ownership, so that
the Church may function as a servant of the community.
We, the founding clergy of the Protestant and Roman Catholic faiths united in
our group Not in Our Name, do solemnly pledge ourselves to this program and
allegiance, and call upon all Christians and clergy to do the same.
Henceforth, and until this Program is enacted and the Church is disestablished
as a corporate, self-governing, criminal body, we will conduct ourselves and our
pastoral duties separate from and in opposition to corporate Christendom and
its existing churches.
Duly signed and ratified this Tenth Day of March, 2012
(Names to follow)
Please share this with clergy and laity and sign it. You can reach us at
thecommonland@gmail.com .
Read the truth of genocide in Canada and globally at:
www.itccs.org
www.hiddennolonger.com (includes documentary film Unrepentant)
www.hiddenfromhistory.org
www.KevinAnnett.com
See this introductory video on The Canadian Holocaust:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqPIh-267fg&feature=related
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Church and State (ITCCS) and Kevin Annett - Eagle Strong Voice (adopted May 2004 into the
Anishinabe nation by Louis Daniels - Whispers Wind).
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phone messages can be left for him at 250-591-4573 (Canada).